The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day Eduardo Galeano More Quotes by Eduardo Galeano More Quotes From Eduardo Galeano Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking. Eduardo Galeano running two moving I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people. Eduardo Galeano respect believe people Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire. Eduardo Galeano light fire air Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world. Eduardo Galeano small-places people world Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories Eduardo Galeano atoms stories bird We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. Eduardo Galeano kissing wine love In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it. Eduardo Galeano moon kings rain The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. Eduardo Galeano medicine church philosophy We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are. Eduardo Galeano Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others. Eduardo Galeano voice eye hands The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show. Eduardo Galeano powerful kings dirty I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it. Eduardo Galeano saving-time saving enjoy I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat Eduardo Galeano eyelids stuck sleep No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is. Eduardo Galeano ignorance mouths lying I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. Eduardo Galeano ignorance latin america Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars. Eduardo Galeano names war civilization History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later. Eduardo Galeano saying-goodbye goodbye The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant intellectuals should be dictating to the people which way they should be heading. I think we should be listening to the people, see in which directions things are developing. People are walking where they can, not where they want to. But they are walking! Eduardo Galeano country people thinking Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots. Eduardo Galeano poverty people world Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart Eduardo Galeano records latin heart
